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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by whom?
2. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?
3. What were the two main resources sought by Christopher Columbus on his voyage when he first encountered the Arawaks?
4. The Louisiana Purchase was an acquisition by the United States of lands claimed by France which took place in what year?
5. The author notes in Chapter 4 that by 1760, there had been how many uprisings designed to create a coup to overthrown various branches of the colonial governments?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where did Christopher Columbus intend to travel when he “discovered” the Americas? Where does the author assert he actually landed in Chapter 1?
2. Who wrote the history of Columbus’s adventures in Cuba from the perspective of the inhabitants, according to the author in Chapter 1?
3. How is the Flour Riot of 1837 described in Chapter 10? What was the cause of the riot?
4. How does the author compare and contrast the treatment of women to that of the Native Americans in Chapter 7?
5. What was the first representative assembly introduced in Virginia? What were the responsibilities of this assembly regarding slavery?
6. Where does the author assert the history of slavery in the U.S. originated in Chapter 2?
7. How does Howard Zinn describe the growth in the number of slaves in the United States between 1790 and 1860 in Chapter 9?
8. How do we know the details of Christopher Columbus’s first encounter with the Arawak people? How does the author describe Columbus’s views of the people in Chapter 1?
9. Why did the English send 1,000 soldiers to Virginia in 1676, according to the author in Chapter 3?
10. What does the author say of “natural antipathy” in Chapter 2?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the origins of African slavery in the American colonies, particularly in the colony of Virginia. How many European colonists lived in the settlement when African slaves were first shipped to the colony? How common were slaves? How much did they cost? Where in Africa and the islands did the slaves originally come from?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the chain of oppression in Jamestown and the other British colonies in the latter half of the 1600s. In the social hierarchy, where did women exist? Where were African slaves and Native Americans in the hierarchy? Who had the greatest economic control?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the class struggles of the nineteenth century in the United States. What corporate and government abuses led to the civil unrest in the country and the establishment of organizations to fight corruption? How effective were these organizations in protecting the common people?
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